Monday, 17 December 2012

Giorgio MorandiNatura Morta1964Morandi paints like no other, before or since. His brushstroke is in complete philosophical agreement with the subject, the scaleand the color of his paintings.It is expressive, though it is modest, and not so expressionistic as to disturb the sense of meditative silence that inhabits all his paintings.He is timeless yet vital, timorous and seemingly threatened by something outside, yet determined and stoic in will to be.To be human. To stand noble, modest and resistant to the violence of the world.Sean Scully: Resistance and Persistence: Selected Writings 2006

“I
felt like an explorer who almost got to the top of Mount Everest, and somehow
stopped and remembered maybe I forgot some gear, you know, I forgot
some equipment, but in going down to recover this equipment I took some
sidepath that looked exciting and full of possibilities.” Philip Guston

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